Senior Business Analyst

Our client, an energy company, is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join their team in Houston, TX.

Requirements:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand key business objectives and ideas to help define and transform them into a scoped and sized business change including definition of minimal value product (MVP).

• Establish a requirements management strategy which describes; process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.

• Elicit business requirements and document in the form of a vision statement, visual models/process flows, business objectives, goals, and success criteria.

• Elicit functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epics, stories, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.

• Build, organize help prioritize and maintain the project backlog over the course of the project, often serving as a partner and mentor for the Business Lead/Product Owner.

• Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, supporting the Business Lead/Product Owner to define value, priority, and select scope for upcoming releases and sprints.

• Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Users, and Technical Team to write and elaborate user stories to include acceptance criteria and business rules per the teams Definition of Done

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as stand-ups, demos and sprint retrospectives.

• Facilitate the review of stories with team during sprint planning to ensure the team has a common understanding of the user story and acceptance criteria.

• Analyze new requests from stakeholders and determine if the request is a defect, new story, a modification to an existing story, or already covered in an existing story. Update the backlog and stories as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or 5+ years experience as a Business Analyst

• Proficient in Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies

• 2-3 years experience in Agile/Scrum, supporting Agile efforts

• Experience with ADO a plus

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

• Experienced in various business analysis techniques including; data modeling, feature decomposition, context diagrams, stakeholder analysis, state diagrams, wireframes, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, use cases, business process definition, user stories, and backlog management.

• Scrum Master or Product Owner certification a plus

• IIBA or CBAP Business Analyst certification a plus

• Ability to act as the champion for the customer

• Experience working the utility industry would be beneficial